The Bears claimed a coveted pair of wins in bracket play over No. 9 Ridgeline (a 7-6 final) and No. 4 Payson (10-0) on Tuesday at the Spanish Fork Softball Complex.

Twenty-one days without a loss, the Bears (30-2) return to Spanish Fork on Wednesday for the semifinals at 12:30 p.m. Their opponent is decided that morning in a semifinal play-in elimination game between Ridgeline and Payson.

Evading Ridgeline 7-6 on a Luci Roche walkoff, the Bears shut out Payson 10-0 in ace Kate Wilson’s eighth no-hitter of her junior campaign. Bear River tallied nine RBIs on 13 total hits against Payson, including Roche’s team-high three RBIs.

Roche, recording a two-RBI double in her first at-bat, Marley Tisdol singling home a run, and Kendryl Archibald grounding out for another run, got the motor running the first. Scoring another run herself, Tisdol took advantage of an error by Lucy Jessen for an early 5-0 lead.

Londyn Gamble and Allie Aoki, each joining the hit column with a pair of singles, tacked two runs onto their lead in the second. Bella Douglas, matching Roche’s first-inning double, joined Roche in tallying two more runs in the fifth, run-ruling the Lions.

On the other side of the bracket, No. 3 West Field rebounded from its 7-5 loss to No. 6 Cedar with an 11-1 romp over No. 7 Logan. Led by Brinklee Hadley in the circle, the Longhorns earned a seat beside Cedar, falling to No. 2 Deseret Hills 5-4 in bracket play, in an elimination game Wednesday morning.

BEAR RIVER 7, RIDGELINE 6

A three-run answer by the Bears in the fifth set up Roche’s walkoff single, edging out Ridgeline 7-6 in their opening matchup on Tuesday. Roche (2-3) led Bear River with four RBI, and Kate Wilson (7.0 IP, 5 H, 3 ER, 7 K) hung around for the win.

With the start, Wilson held the Bears 1-0 early as Kylie Jorgensen homered off the junior in the top of the first. Roche put the Bears on the board in the first, sacrificing a run home, and the third, homering to center field for a 4-3 deficit entering the fourth.

Down 6-3 in the fifth, Bear River welcomed its second home run via Tisdol, clearing the center fence for a three-run shot knotting things up 6-all in the fifth. Tisdol’s three RBIs rounded out seven total RBIs on nine hits by the Bears.

WEST FIELD 11, LOGAN 1

Unloading six runs in the third, West Field strolled over Logan 11-1 in six innings on Tuesday, surviving to meet Cedar again in an elimination game Wednesday morning. Hadley picked up the win, pitching six innings of four-hit, one-run softball with five strikeouts.

Down 1-0 through the first, Hailee Ellsworth and Kam Bell sandwiched two homers, tallying five total runs, between an error initiated by Brylee Leatherwood, for a 6-1 lead in the third. Leatherwood and Ayzlee Sessions added a pair of RBI doubles in the fourth.

Ellsworth added a second home run, a solo shot into center field, and Ella Doxey chipped in an RBI single in the sixth. Ellsworth (2-3, 3 RBI), Bell (1-3, 3 RBI), and Leatherwood (1-3, 2 RBI) led West Field, outhitting the Grizzlies 10-4.

CEDAR 7, WEST FIELD 5

Ellsworth and Koford stirred the pot, scoring two runs in the final frame of West Field’s 7-5 loss to Cedar in their opening matchup on Tuesday. Ellsworth, doubling into right field for a run, and Koford, singling to left for another, bought the Longhorns a bit of time.

However, an Andreasen lineout quickly ended the seventh-inning rally as the Reds protected a 7-2 lead they built by drawing five runs off Hadley (7.0 IP, 9 H, 7 R, 6 ER, 3 BB, 6 K) on two homers in the fifth.

Ellsworth (2-2, RBI), Koford (1-4, RBI), Sessions (2-4, 2 RBI), and Doxey (1-3, RBI) led West Field, outhitting Cedar 11-9.

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